Episode 1077 Scott Adams: Dismantling Teacher Unions, Epstein File Via Cernovich, Pandemic Scorecard

Date: 2020-07-31 | Duration: 56:39

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• President Trump always keeps his options open

• Skepticism about COVID19 results

• Epstein documents unsealed

• Teacher unions: an extinction risk for America

• Nuclear energy: imperative that America leads

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good morning everybody how are you it's good to see you i hope you all brought your beverages because it's gonna be one of the best days ever yeah today is shaping up to look really good let's check the stock market see what's going on there anything happening in the stock market what looks like apple and amazon are doing pretty darn good pretty darn good so i know that many of you here are here for the the laughs the excitement the camaraderie the news the information the emotional and intellectual titillation but many of you are here for the simultaneous sip and all you need if you would like to participate is the copper marker glass of tanker chelsea's dino canteen jogger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid i like coffee and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dope immediate of the day the thing

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the dope immediate of the day the thing that makes everything better including the pandemic economics stock market unemployment everything it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now go
sublime says that surgery changed you um let me address that because since many of you watch me every day
day i should address the fact that there's certainly some kind of chemical change going on here so part of it is the surgery on my sinuses which should change the my vocal quality a bit don't know if it's permanent yet but i'm also still on prednisone so the prednisone changes both my personality makes me more aggressive and a little more energetic i think but

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and a little more energetic i think but also because i had sinus surgery this will be the first time you've ever seen me when i'm not using marijuana every day so for a while i have to keep that in my system so i was awake for 36 hours straight or something if you don't count anesthesia i was awake for 36 hours because my brain is just going crazy just adjusting to the new chemical composition it's such a difference from normal so we don't know how this is going to turn out i'm actually on an experiment kanye tweeted just now well i don't know what that is um but we'll find out together i guess let's talk about the news here's a question so i guess in the first nba game all of the players and coaches uh
uh knelt now the total amount that i care about this issue zero zero i don't really care who kneels before a sporting event is there

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kneels before a sporting event is there anything less important i don't think so it's probably the least important thing happening in the world and yet it's you know headline news but here's my provocative question if china did not want the nba players to kneel could they have done it i'm just trying to cause trouble just think about it if if china had some real problem i don't know why they would but let's say they did let's say for example that kneeling was an insult in china it isn't i don't think but imagine it was
was could the nba players have all knelt and i think the answer is no which is just a funny thought not funny for them i think nba is going to have some problems obviously now the big story yesterday was the president tweeted about uh maybe we should delay the elections just so we'll have the votes counted because if

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have the votes counted because if they're if they're voting by mail yeah there might be some delays and of course that causes everybody to say you fascist you fascist you
but it was the president being the president i don't know how anybody can take this stuff as completely literal anymore and and then comment on it in public and act as if we don't all know that president trump is president trump he has a certain style of communicating you know he'll use a little hyperbole he'll he'll bluff he'll take the he'll take a high offer he'll shake the box
box so when you see something like maybe we should delay the elections what kind of filter should you put on that well i'll tell you the one you shouldn't put on it there's one that's definitely wrong that he's decided to become a dictator and take over the country that's the most wrong one that was pretty ridiculous

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pretty ridiculous now does he mean it does it matter what's the context probably doesn't matter at all uh here's my take and this is from uh jason uh i i tweeted him a trained hypnotist who had this take on it on twitter that by president trump putting out the thought that the election could be delayed he has actually trapped the democrats do you see it it's not it's not exactly obvious i had to i had to play with it in my mind a little bit to see if this made sense and i don't know if it's intentional or it's just you know the way it turns out but imagine that the democrats spend the next two months arguing that the election result must be determined on election day
or or some you know some period around then if there's some some adjustments but certainly not past you know january 20th in inauguration

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you know january 20th in inauguration if they spend their whole time arguing that the election should be accepted on whatever day they think it should be done election day let's say they're also going to be priming themselves to accept whatever the result is
is so if they commit themselves publicly to saying that whatever we see on election day
day is the result they have also bound themselves to accept it and they might not want to now what president trump has done and i just shake my head when i see him do this because there are some times when he's the only smart person in the country it seems at least in public so when he was asked if he would accept the outcome of the election both the last one and this upcoming one he said some version of we'll have to see that's exactly the right answer every other answer is just dumb because if you say i will accept it you're just limiting your options why would you do that

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would you do that who would limit their own options before they're forced to do it and you see this consistently trump will always say how about i'll keep all of my options open no no no tell us what you're going to do no how about i keep all of my options open do you think you'll use nuclear weapons i've got an idea why don't i why don't i keep
all of my options open do you think you'll do this or that with china i've got an idea why don't i keep all of my options open he does it all the time so when he does it with the election is it because he's a fascist dictator who's going to take over well that's what the left says but it's also exactly what he does all the time and everything he always keeps his options open now could you guarantee that the result of our election will look fair and credible and it will be you know a real election can you guarantee that because i can't guarantee that i think it'll happen

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it'll happen i'm optimistic but i don't know and if you don't know keep your options open i don't think we're going to have any kind of a coup or violent insurrection or anything so i'm not too worried about it but let me ask you this suppose your results were in the let's say you're within one or two percent in the final outcome so let's say the final presidential race no matter which side wins is you know real close like they usually are
are how many influences are we going to look at after the fact to say what changed the election we're going to look at the you know the russians doing some lame thing that a second grader could do we're going to look at all of china's influence we're going to look at uh the news how they how they handle things and almost all of it
it i don't know maybe none of it will matter because i've got a feeling that the voters have made up their minds

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made up their minds all right um i recommended on twitter this morning that you all follow this account by uh andres backhouse at uh andreas shrugged uh you can see my tweet if you want to follow him the reason you should follow him is he's uh he lives in germany he's a german citizen speaks perfect english phd in economics and he's my go-to for looking at all the pundits and experts claims to see if they're consistent the data is right they've looked at it right i've told you in my book loser think that people who have the right talent stack are much better suited for explaining the world a phd in economics is a really good place to start if you're going to look at other people's data and see how they've you know how they've compared things so if you want to know if somebody has compared things correctly

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compared things correctly you want a phd in economics and and andres is the best i've seen so on almost all of the issues in america he weighs in on the big twitter debates and consistently has probably the best takes i've i've seen on almost all of the topics today he uh humorously corrected chris cuomo so this is what this is why it's so much fun
fun so i guess chris cuomo was saying on cnn last night that germany was doing much better with its economy than the united states so that germany had handled the pandemic and they'd also done better than us in terms of you know not
not losing as much economically as maybe they could have but it turns out that he just looked at the wrong numbers that chris cuomo whose background in training his talent stack is he's an attorney that's good but that's not really quite the right you know field for this conversation

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conversation and chris guam is very smart uh you may he may disagree but i think it's objectively true that he's smart and uh and he's you know journalist and does his job so his talent stack is pretty strong but he does have maybe a blind spot for the economics which would not be unusual that would be the common situation uh but what he did he just apparently he just confused some gdp and growth rates comparing the united states so he basically compared an apple to an orange if you as andres pointed out if you compare the apple to the apple the united states did a little better so it actually completely reversed the story from germany is kicking our butts to actually we were a little bit better a little bit better and so i provocatively put this challenge out on twitter if you plan to criticize president trump later and you know you do you know and

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later and you know you do you know and i'm talking about the left and the right right the the one thing we can guarantee is that both the left and the right will criticize president trump when it's all over and now too right everybody's got their complaints i would ask you this and i like to keep reminding people if you're tr if you're evaluating president trump's performance with the pandemic and with the the economy you can't do it in a vacuum it's got to be compared to something that's relevant otherwise you don't know if it's better or worse than some standard and i would just challenge people if they plan to criticize the president later and you know you do so this is most of you pick your champions now pick the other countries and the other leaders and state them in public and say i'm going to compare president trump in the future to germany that i think that would be one comparison maybe canada maybe you pick a couple of

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maybe canada maybe you pick a couple of european countries you know what it whatever you think is fair but just name your champion once you have your uh somebody helpfully is putting andres backhouse the spelling in the comments so you can see there so pick your champion and the reason i say this is if you can't pick your champion now i'm not sure you can tell who's doing a better job later because you get to cherry-pick your comparison after the fact i would say let's put them up against the you know the countries that are as comparable as you can get maybe as a group that might even be better but i have this prediction and it goes like this some countries will be better than the united states at handling the pandemic that's guaranteed some countries will do better than the united states maybe handling the economy in their own country maybe but i don't think many countries

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maybe but i don't think many countries are going to do better at both and that's going to be interesting because the economy and the
the and the virus are um almost exchangeable they're they're almost like a currency that one can pay for the other in other words if the virus goes up it's bad for the economy and you know people die from the virus but they also die from the economy so they're sort of linked right and i don't think you're going to find a situation when this is all done where there are many countries that beat the united states on both both measures you know handling the pandemic and deaths and also keeping the economy alive which also keeps people alive so let's wait for that that's that's my challenge to the world if if you're going to criticize him later tell us now who you're going to measure him against that's fair

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all right the turns out that we're getting some reports that i don't yet trust about countries completely getting on top of the virus maybe to the point of being past it which seems over-optimistic to me so here are a few of the stories jake novak reports or tweeted today that israel says that it may it may have beat it so israel is looking like it got on top of the virus wiped it out it may it may be a non-problem very soon in israel now i don't know that that can last because it depends how much you can control your borders and stuff because there's got to be new virus coming in i don't know how that could not be the case so i am i would say that i am appropriately skeptical of any country that claims that they've they've beaten it or they're near beating it because i don't know that that is a thing yet so but so israel is reported uh i'm seeing reports again everything i

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uh i'm seeing reports again everything i say here should be considered not credible because we live in a world in which a hundred percent of our information is untrustworthy well i don't know if you can say that about information i would say that the data cannot be trusted for basically anything right now some of it has to do with the pandemic some of it has to do with the fact that data is never good we just think it is sometimes but we're getting smarter now so that the more we get red pilled about the real way that the world works the less you should believe any data any because all data is just politics ultimately you know if you see any public data that has some kind of public purpose you should just see it as almost an opinion because somebody made that data somebody collected it and if it didn't agree with their point of view you probably never would have seen it so there isn't much difference in 2020 between hard data we're going to use our hard data to make

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we're going to use our hard data to make decisions and i think i'll just use my opinion you think there's a difference you want there to be a difference maybe there used to be a difference but there's definitely not a difference now now data is just opinion packaged up with numbers it's all fraudulent people will pick whatever starting points and ending points make their case they'll measure what they want to measure they'll ignore what they don't want to include so i would say we're in a world where all data should be considered wrong that should be your first your first judgment is that it should be almost certainly wrong sometimes it will be right but so rarely that you should almost count it like it's not a thing that's that would be my advice so there's uh as i'm seeing reports on twitter which means no credibility at all that sweden has basically beaten the virus that they got to something like herd immunity didn't completely close their

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immunity didn't completely close their economy although their economy did take a hit just because people did socially distance voluntarily is that true because i don't know that that's true yeah and again sweden might flare up again but somebody's saying it so another tweet that haiti which was being used as an example because they have the worst health care situation so the question is what would happen to a country that basically just didn't have good health care and just got ravaged by the coronavirus what would happen if haiti is that example and if the data is right which again what are the odds it would show that haiti just basically built up herd immunity and they're already past it without too much death now i don't know if that's true but you're gonna hear lots of stories about you know this country or that country you know got past it got hurt immunity i would say you should be very cautious about believing any of that but here's what i would like to see

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given how hard it is to actually know anything for sure there are only these little opportunities where you might be able to pick out some data that you could actually trust and it might tell you something it's rare but i would suggest this and i'd be open to comments whether this is dumb or brilliant but it goes like this i'd like to see a list of the countries where hydroxyl chloroquine is available over the counter without a prescription and has been for the last several months so i don't care what happened before the pandemic but during the pandemic was you know which countries had hydroxychloroquine over the counter now here's the beauty of what i'm going to suggest if you look at any one country i don't believe those numbers at all i completely don't believe any numbers from any one country united states or anywhere else but if you were to sum together let's say let's say there were two dozen countries that you could find that definitely had

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that you could find that definitely had over-the-counter hydroxychloroquine and if that total group on average was way better at getting past the pandemic than the group that was only by prescription or had other limitations would that be meaningful it might be but it also might not be because there could be other correlations it could be something about temperature or something about density for example you know do you have as much density in the warmer areas where there's also malaria where they also had hydroxychloroquine so you've got the temperature environment season density you might have some kind of uh your genetic thing that that mixes things up somebody says don't forget the zinc well yes let's not forget the zinc
but the point is um the zinc question is important so so put a pin in that but if you found that the

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but if you found that the over-the-counter hydroxychloroquine people were all doing better even with amazing because probably people would be smart enough to pick up a little zinc i don't know is that hard can you get it over the counter too i mean i know you can buy zinc over the counter obviously duh but is it the medical grade zinc that is meant to be working in concert with hydrox chloroquine is there any difference if i just buy some walmart zinc is it just as good i don't know because i have some the first thing i did was go out and buy some zinc so i mean i have some in my cabinet all right so would it tell us anything if those groups are different because you know the the frontline doctors that are been in the news lately have been talking about making hydroxychloroquine uh over over-the-counter in the united states and i'd like to know if anybody had a good result with that if nobody if the average of them didn't get any good results well i'd be less inclined to think that's the most important thing we

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that's the most important thing we should do but maybe who knows um here's an interesting thing i didn't know this when it happened but president trump tweeted this he was talking about how we're going to be building back this was on the 27th so a few days ago and i i only saw it yesterday yeah he's talking about if sleepy joe biden the puppet of the left ever won markets would crash and cities would burn which i think is actually literally true the markets would crash and cities would burn it's funny you just automatically think that's hyperbole but i don't know i mean it could this is definitely in the realm of completely believable future scenarios that cities would burn you know because biden is on the side that wants to defund the police so it doesn't take many dots to be connected for a city to be on fire but then his tweet goes on he goes our country would suffer like never before

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suffer like never before and then trump says we will beat the virus soon and go on to the golden age better than ever before hashtag golden age now i'm the one who said hashtag golden age that's not in the the tweet but i'm liking a lot the president's um view because i am a hundred percent on board with it have you noticed that uh and and let me not minimize how bad things are right now there are people dying they're people and at work there's there's a big hunger problem that's that's growing in the united states that might be our not might be it should be our top priority is the hunger problem so we got really serious problems but as the president indicates there is something about this virus and the pandemic that is renewing you can feel that right i'm not the only one i don't think there are so many things that got changed and um our perspective on just every

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and um our perspective on just every part of life changed so substantially that i think it opens up a whole bunch of possibilities that weren't there before education definitely going to change commuting will change our relationship with china will change we'll bring in our supply chains we've learned a ton about virology we're probably safer from future pandemics i mean right down to just the most basic things let me give you the smallest example i still had somebody in my business life uh
uh my book publisher who was still mailing me a physical check now i don't know about you but do you get mad when somebody gives you a physical check well i get mad every time i get one or i i'm even matter if i have to write one because i feel like what is this that the 1600s i'm writing on a piece of paper with a you know a feather quill or something to exchange monetary value

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exchange monetary value and because of the pandemic my publisher said well we can't do these physical checks anymore so we'll do direct deposit just fill out this form to which i said thank you thank you you just saved one of my problems now this is the smallest problem in the world but multiply it by seven billion people you know changing and correcting all the ways they're doing everything and and it's like a million things that are small improvements somebody said in the comments say handshakes handshakes might go away i kind of doubt it but they might would that be an improvement it could be just getting rid of handshakes could lower health care costs five percent or something i don't know not five percent probably um
so let's talk about uh uh so the the golden age might be coming there might be really good stuff ahead and the online stuff the delivery stuff it's just going to be incredible but we

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it's just going to be incredible but we have to get past this bad patch uh biggest story maybe today is the epstein files being unsealed credit to mike cernovich who made that happen so everything you see in the news for the next however long about these new epstein files that come out you should think to yourself that would not have happened without mike cernovich and i got to say this i i mentioned him almost too much but he he makes such a perfect example of of things that i like to talk about that it just has to be mentioned and it goes like this um those of you who follow mike zorovich on twitter you know that most of the time he's hanging out with his two young daughters taking care of them tweeting and stuff and his but he's built a talent stack that includes you know legal investigative you know social media it just keeps you know growing

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just keeps you know growing at his power just watching his ability to influence the entire freaking planet from his house with his phone is like the coolest thing if you've been watching it the whole time so he went from you know a guy who was trying to get a mindset book going and sort of a fringy character and you know there was the pizzagate thing and you know people had their opinions about that and then you know hoax came out is probably i would say one of the best documentaries i've ever seen you know i'm a little bit biased because i'm in it
it but i do think it was one of the best produced pieces of quality work in the last several years and and you know but then he got kind of ignored you know the amazon pulled it and didn't get much attention and and now but his power just keeps growing it's just so yeah every day it's just a little bit more a little bit more and today you you know you put on the news and the news is basically the news he created

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news is basically the news he created he actually created the news so epstein is trending cernovich made it happen um and it's just it's just glorious watching it so uh but what what is interesting about this story are several things one of them is how the news is covering it
it i recommended that you all follow a a new
new uh it's a startup and news startup called the ground news so ground like the ground that you stand on news and what they do is they monitor all the left and right and center news sources and they give you a graph that shows you who's covering what stories and you'll see that on a story like this every well most of the news entities that are right-leaning have covered it because bill clinton is named in the epstein files so the right completely covered it and then you see the graph that i tweeted you can look at it yourself that the left is just empty

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that the left is just empty it's empty it's a big story that's embarrassing to bill clinton and the entire left media bubble ignored it it's completely empty and when you see it so so stark you understand the the bubble situation there's nobody that i know on the left who will even really be
be aware of this maybe they just sort of won't even know it exists
so what do we make of the new information we have well there'll be more stuff dripping out but here are some of the highlights number one apparently the fbi and i haven't dug into the details but i'm just reading twitter summaries of this apparently the fbi was aware of more victims of epstein and did not interview them all before they made whatever deal they were making with them which indicates that the fbi maybe did not want to prosecute him so much

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much which no matter what you thought about the fbi before as in are they trying to overthrow the united states get rid of the legally elected president with their with their russia collusion hoaxes no matter what you thought about them before this is maybe a little worse because it does look like the fbi and again you can't you can't make a definitive claim about anybody at the fbi doing anything specific but the way it looks is that the fbi was complicit in allowing a serial pedophile to operate or at least give them a an easier way out
out and they got a lot of explaining to do that's a lot of explaining i don't know where that's going to go keep an eye on that now the big claim the the big shockers are the names of people that uh one of the one of the young women who

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uh one of the one of the young women who was in the epstein circle there was naming so she was naming famous people who had visited the island her names included uh bill clinton who she says was on the scene on the island uh which he claims he was never on the island so that's a big big claim to say that he was on the island that would directly contradict everything he's ever said if true and it said that there were two young women there also as well as uh galen and epstein now there's no reporting on you know any of those two young girls or women i don't know how old they were um there's no reporting that they had specific any kind of contact with any of those other people just that they were there at the same time that's the report the report also says that uh tipper and al gore were on the island and here's the funniest one matt groening the creator of the simpsons now uh here's what you need to know

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now uh here's what you need to know dershowitz who also has been dragged into these allegations of various times is tweeting today that he wants to make sure that even more stuff is unredacted because his claim is this that the the woman woman or girl who is making the claims about who was on the island the famous people that she has already been proven to be a liar and i believe that one of the examples is that there's some proof that al and tipper gore were never on the island now that's a very specific claim she's made that al gore and his wife were on the island i believe and you i need a fact check on this but i believe that dershowitz claim is that that can be definitively ruled out as untrue now if that's true that it's untrue that also means that anything else this witness says about who is on the island has no credibility at all

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credibility at all if you can take somebody as important as al gore claim they were on the island and then prove it didn't happen uh it kind of makes all the rest of them go away or at least in a legal sense it would if not if not a common sense way so uh dershowitz is he looks pretty confident that uh and i think there are other documents that have already proven that the gores were not there so he's pretty confident that if it's fully disclosed you're going to find out that that wasn't true now if it's not true that the gores were on the island would you believe that bill clinton was on the island you shouldn't all right now uh let me give a full full disclosure i've never liked hillary clinton and i didn't think she would be good for the country but i've always kind of like bill clinton and while i will never excuse anything he's done in his let's say semi-private life

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i also don't tend to judge my leaders by that standard because i see them as employees and if my employee gets my job done his personal problems are between him and the legal system and anybody else you know i just don't like to make everybody's problems all of my problems you know if you can if you get the economy up and things are going so i applied the same standard to bill clinton when he was being impeached that i did with trump which is i'm not supporting any of that whatever you're saying he did that's between you and him and your conscience and the law and i'm just out you know that's just not my deal so i'm not
not anti-bill clinton so that's just full disclosure so you know where my my uh where i'm coming from i would say that the odds are that there is not a credible information that bill clinton was on the island because the only person claiming it
it appears to be have no credibility at all based on the al gore thing being wrong if it's wrong now her other claim is

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if it's wrong now her other claim is that matt greening the creator of the simpsons was on the island now if al gore was not on the island it's there's a pretty good chance that the
the the matte graining part is completely made up too we don't know yet we'll wait and find out could be never know but i was imagining matt greening's day imagine if it were true and i think it's sketchy to think that this is true but imagine if matt grayning knew all along that he had been to the island and he was just waiting for somebody to find out oh my god oh my god oh let me give a clarification the there is confirmation that bill clinton was on epstein's plane so that part nobody's arguing about so the flights are definite the only question was was he ever physically on the island which he claims specifically he never was and i think he claims he was never at any of the epstein properties

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properties uh just to clarify thank you um but i was imagining that grading and waking up this morning it's like oh
get my coffee let's see how today's looks kind of sunny out today good day coffee is good i'll check the news
uh-oh that's how matt green's day probably went today so um i don't know matt greening personally he did send me once a uh a nice note when the dilbert tv show was on he sent my producer a nice note um complimenting it and so i have a good feeling about matt groening and i hope that none of this is true and i hope that uh i hope he i hope he does well but it's hard not to imagine that scene of him waking up to the news like well what's going on uh i've been allegedly on epstein's island rao

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epstein's island rao okay um so lots more on that congratulations mike cernovich for for all of that um are you seeing more and more pushback to the teachers unions or is that my imagination i don't think it's my imagination so i've declared war on the teachers unions and here's the logic to it the most important thing in the country is national defense would you agree i mean assuming that we can eat national defense is probably number one because you've got to get that right before you can get anything else right now national defense is somewhat interchangeable with economics meaning that if you have enough money you can actually you don't even need an army if you have enough money you can bribe people you can make deals with them you can make them happier to do business with you than to conquer you so money and economics are very i'm sorry economics and the military

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i'm sorry economics and the military are kind of substitutes and you need lots of money to have a really strong military so if you say well we'll concentrate on the military but not the economy well you're doing it wrong because that's not a thing you have to have a strong economy they're connected the other thing that's connected is our education system there's no such thing as a strong economy with a weak education system that's not a thing can't be a thing so if you don't have your education system right you don't have your economy right and then you can't have national security right so i would argue that we should strongly consider using some kind of national security executive order or national security imperative to overrule some powers that the teachers unions have because apparently they're one of the biggest obstacles to really everything because at the moment the biggest

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because at the moment the biggest obstacle to reopening the schools which is a challenge to the economy which is a challenge to national security it our entire standing in the world is now at risk to some radicals and teachers unions who are who are demanding things like uh defunding the police before they go back to teach this is crazy stuff but beyond that it's much much deeper because the teachers unions are the the force that keep um schools from having as much competition as they could from firing bad teachers to get better ones in there really all forms of change are limited by the by the teachers unions and that is a critical problem for the country the teachers unions are an extinction risk to the united states it's that bad that's not hyperbole the teachers unions are an extinction risk to the republic

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risk to the republic you know the the physical land will still be here but the republic can't stand as long as the teachers unions remain in their current form it just can't happen and so we have to start being smarter and tougher about what we think about protecting the country if you want to protect the country you're going to have to defeat the teachers unions you're going to need to do it quickly i think it needs to happen before the end of the year so before the end of the year if we haven't dismantled the teachers unions we're not getting off to a good start and china is going to have a big advantage there so i'd like to see some kind of executive order to i don't know exactly what it would take either to limit their power there's there's at least one movement that i don't know too much about but i'm going to look into it there there's some legal precedents that

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there there's some legal precedents that would allow union members to stop paying dues but to still be in the union have you heard of that so apparently that's a thing but i don't know the details yet so there are some teachers unions in which the teachers themselves are organizing to discontinue paying dues but still remain in the union because if you take the money out of the union then the union leaders don't really have a reason to be there you know they don't have a reason to to do whatever they're doing if you strip the money out of them it's going to reduce their power so that effort is going ongoing so that you'll see grassroots movements to defund the teachers unions but i think we need something from the top because to me this is a commander-in-chief decision literally a commander in chief decision there there are two areas where i think the commander-in-chief decision has to be central one is this

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has to be central one is this uh because if you're looking at national defense you can't look at it as a as a one to five year situation if you're looking at national defense you have to look at it as a hundred year plan right i mean if you don't have a hundred year plan for your you know your uh your country you're not doing it right you should be looking at all the things you need to get going to be as safe as possible in the future so the school system has got to be number one right maybe not actually the other one might be number one the second one is nuclear energy and the argument is not just about powering you know current stuff on earth the argument is that nuclear power is what will what will power space exploration spaceships space colonies whoever owns space will own the earth so if we're not building a robust best-in-class nuclear energy industry on

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best-in-class nuclear energy industry on in this country to handle all of the nuclear energy issues both domestic military and space which is also military in part if we're not doing all of that and we're not the number one country in that whoever is will own space and whoever owns space owns it all because you know the high the high ground is going to be incredibly important for any military and also resources because apparently the the rare resources from asteroids etc are are just insanely valuable so commander-in-chief needs to work against school unions and education in general just to make that as powerful as possible i think the entire education system needs to be rethought from the ground up to make it something that works in the modern world because i don't think there's anybody who would disagree that the things that are taught in school are not the things that a modern student

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are not the things that a modern student needs to learn you know some are but a lot of it is you really you would probably change 40 percent of what the kids learn to to get to where it needs to be for the modern world all right so that's it teachers unions gotta go uh there's a decision in this michael brown death from six years ago in ferguson and the officer darren wilson will not be prosecuted because the more they looked into it and i guess they've been looking into it for a long time and i think it's worth noting that the prosecutor who is dropping the case is black because that's the world we live in where you have to mention that because that's part of the story
and they can't find evidence sufficient that would say that that this was a crime as opposed to a tragic incident now if you don't know this already the same thing is going to happen with george floyd so the longer that case goes the better

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so the longer that case goes the better we are as a country you know with it would be good to the george floyd thing if we could stretch that out four or five years that would help a lot because if tomorrow we find that the police were arrested in his uh in his death uh if we find out tomorrow that that case gets dropped oh my god the whole country's gonna burn and i think it will so we're in this weird situation where these police officers who i'm not going to say they did the best job they could do because i don't know i just i just don't have the skills to evaluate it and i don't think i have enough information about really what was happening on the ground but if it's true as i've heard in one one report that um that george floyd had in him three times the amount of fatal fentanyl that you would basically three times more than an overdose amount

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more than an overdose amount the claim not confirmed but the claim is that george floyd was a dead man walking before the police even touched him
him in other words there was nothing they could have done to save his life and nothing they did that changed whether he lived or died because he was a dead man and he was going to die in the next few minutes from the fentanyl in his body i'm a bit of an expert on this my stepson died the same way and if that's true and he had some other stuff in there too but if that's true i just can't see any scenario in which the police officers are charged with the worst of the crimes they might be charged with i don't know you know not doing enough to to save them or something but i don't think there's any chance that they're going to be charged with killing them so i you should get ready for that sorry might be a little more blood coming out of my nose for a day or two um molly hemingway

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um molly hemingway had this comment about the washington post on twitter she said that fascinating that the washington post frets that the truth coming out about the russia collusion hoax against trump would impact an election when as she points out the russia collision hoax that the washington post perpetuated dramatically helped democrats in the 2018 midterm election now i don't know if you can uh if you can directly say that one issue caused the 2018 midterm result but it was a big one you know it was maybe the biggest one so um
this it's just funny that you know the washington post having completely you know been involved in
basically a coup against the united states in effect because their reporting supported a hoax that was a coup against the united states

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states and in my opinion uh and now they're complaining that the truth coming out about the hoax if it comes out before the election might affect the election and i'm thinking to myself i think i'd want it to affect the election is that the whole point the whole point of knowledge and information and data and finding out what's real and what isn't isn't the whole point of that to affect the election i mean even if that's not the intention you hope that it does all right that is i think what i wanted to talk about today
knowledge is power you were right all right um somebody says somebody else is reporting that hydroxychloroquine is effective well we shall find out i was watching that uh one of the doctors the front line doctors a the uh the woman who was not the nigerian doctor uh she got fired for appearing and

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uh she got fired for appearing and talking about hydroxychloroquine so that's not good but i did listen to her arguments and i gotta say i'm still 50 50. i'm still 50 percent on the uh whether hydroxychloroquine is a game changer or not um i'm seeing another tweet that kanye is
is dropping some some good tweets so i'll go change that yes simone gold dr simone gold is her name all right um please stream on youtube too somebody says um well i i post on youtube an hour later so you can see it there an hour later but um youtube demonetizes me so i'm not pro youtube so youtube monetizes two different ways one is subscription people people who pay a subscription to nazi ads so i'll get a small percentage of that

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so i'll get a small percentage of that based on how many people watch the views but they usually demonetize me for advertising which it would be tempting to blame youtube for that but their business model is that advertisers themselves specify who they want to be associated with and if they if they don't want to be associated with a certain kind of content it's really not up to youtube they kind of have to serve they serve their customer
um yeah the her the herman cain i'm not going to comment on herman cain or john lewis in part because i didn't know much about either one of them and i have nothing nothing bad or good to say of any value so it's something that happened it's just not my beat
uh somebody says get on locals i am on locals uh i think you may be talking to the person who asked the question though so my content also goes on the locals

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so my content also goes on the locals platform subscription service any of you who want to support what i do and see more of it that would be the place to go and so locals is my locals is what allows me to say the things in public that you wish you could say but you can't so this is the way to look at it the reason that i'm on these free public services so you can get this content for free but i'm also on a subscription service like who who would pay for things they could get for free well what for one thing i have maybe twice as much content on locals you don't get to see the you know half of it so if it's more provocative i'll keep it there some things a little more personal in some cases but but basically it's everything you see publicly plus some good stuff but the the real reason that anybody should be a subscriber to that is because that allows me to say in the non-subscription services

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in the non-subscription services anything i want that is you know reasonable and and not trying to be harmful so my freedom of speech is entirely dependent on the fact that i have a safe space to go to locals that if i get completely canceled off the main platforms i'm still going to be okay you know i've got like a little bit of a fall back there so that gives me the freedom to to push it as far to the line of cancellation as i can always trying to be good intentions always trying to be good intentions if if you're new to me uh let me tell you that the part of my life where i was just selfish and trying to get what was good for me and and i think every young person should think that way they should be building their own their own you know wealth and family and taking care of their personal business but when you reach a certain age and if you've had some good luck in life you there's sort of a natural transformation to being more

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natural transformation to being more outwardly focused after i got divorced from my first wife i felt myself sort of disconnected from my personal my personal life really and i i made a promise so this was years ago and i promised that from that day on that i belong to the world so when you're married your first you know you belong to your your little family situation now christina is an extraordinary uh woman and she being married to her is is is wonderful first of all so if you didn't know i just got married and uh so with her i can maintain um you know full marriage but also be externally focused because she came to me when i already was so she knows exactly who i am so she's not trying to change me when she met me i was already completely externally

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i was already completely externally focused so my mission from now until you know my organic body leaves this earth and maybe after who knows is to is to make the world better specifically the united states and i think that helps the world and i'm involved in a whole bunch of different ways to do that and i look for areas in which my special blend of skills can can make a difference but i don't have any bad intentions if i tell you i want to decouple from china it's not because i hate china even though i do it's because it's good for us and it's going to be good for the world in the long in the long term so if you're wondering what i mean what's my secret intention what's my you know what's my game what's my scam what's my grift it's all the same for the last 10 years i belong to the world all right that's it
it and that's my message for today